

And what I told him essentially is I don't know that there will be clarity, that what happens is we do our best and we live the life that we choose. And so he asked me to help him find some clarity on this question that, really, I think so many of us ask ourselves. He was agonizing over, you know, if he would make the wrong choice, that he would regret it. So the letter was from this man who is around the age of 40, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to be a father or not. And you kept coming back to this idea of a ghost ship life in the column. They informed the advice I give as Sugar.ĭETROW: That reminded me of one of the columns you wrote where you talked about the idea of the choices that you make in life and how you're a different person because of the journey you went on, but there could be this idea of a parallel version of you who made some different choices, and how important it is to make peace with where you ended up as opposed to the alternate you. She has to have grown up poor in a rural environment, because those things not only formed me. She has to have been estranged from her father since a young age like I was. From the start, Strayed tells us, she knew that Clare, aka Sugar, had to have her past.ĬHERYL STRAYED: She has to have lived through many of the most formative experiences I had, namely the death of my mom - my mom died very suddenly of cancer at 45. And although the series is generally fictional, it does closely mirror Strayed's own life and experiences, many of which were captured in the advice columns that Cheryl Strayed wrote anonymously under the name Sugar. The show stars Kathryn Hahn as an adult Clare and Sarah Pidgeon as a young Clare, and Merritt Wever plays Clare's mother, Frankie. It follows Clare, both the woman she is today and the teenager she was. "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a brand-new series on Hulu based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling book of the same name.
